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I'm guessing it's highly likely that one of the reasons for the acquisition is to make Hipchat the on-prem version of Slack, or at least create a path to that goal. Why does everyone here assume they will shutter the product? Slack has been promising self-hosted chat for years.

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HipChat is known for having a problematic low-level protocol (based on a fork of XMPP), it's featureset is much more limited than Slack's, and it's implemented in a different programming language.

It'd be a lot less work to fork Slack and make it work on-premise than do something with HipChat. And that's saying a lot: forking Slack to make it run well on-premise would likely be an enormous project.

Or they could just leave it as is or rebrand it as Slack enterprise until they build a new version based on Slack.

the UI/UX is so different I'd be very surprised if they managed that

See SKYPE for Business. replace('Lync', 'Skype') probably...

Oh Mircosfot's strategy is the weirdest: OCS, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams, Yammer... People are just lost.

Nayego is trying to hard build a HipChat-like client+server that is open source and based on XMPP. https://nayego.net/ you can subscribe if you want to see a preview.

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2018/07/atlassian-slack...

> As a result of this partnership, Atlassian is discontinuing all real-time communications products, and we are working with Slack to provide a migration path for Stride and Hipchat customers.

They provide dates for shuttering everything. Stride and Hipchat Cloud are shuttering Feb 2019. The latest version of Hipchat Server will be supported until June 2020.

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